Best store bought cake?

[Anonymous]

Tout de Sweet in Bethesda is a pastry shop with a French patissier. You need to order the cakes in advance. They're much more refined and better-tasting than supermarket cakes.

https://www.toutdesweetshop.com/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it that much harder to get one from a bakery? Out in the Western ‘burbs of NoVA, you can go to any Korean bakery and pick up some lovely cakes that aren’t cloyingly sweet. Usually there are some inside Lotte/H-Mart.

Yes it is. I need to get a big cake for around 35-40 people. Reeling just at the price of grocery cake. I don’t need to spend $100+ on a cake.

I was quoted $260 for a half sheet cake in silver spring. And the image on it was going to be an edible image, they wouldn’t even do it in frosting for that price.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I disagree about nothing Bundt cakes - overly sweet and cloying cream cheese frosting and dumpy appearance is not appealing.

+1 for WF berry chantilly

Totally agree, the Nothing Bundt cake was pure sugar and very artificial.

Love the Whole Foods Berry Chantilly cake.

[Anonymous]

When Giant had their own bakery, they had an amazing cake with white chocolate icing that was identical to a cake I had at a Ritz. I don't think they have anything like it anymore. Tragic!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When Giant had their own bakery, they had an amazing cake with white chocolate icing that was identical to a cake I had at a Ritz. I don't think they have anything like it anymore. Tragic!

I think the Giant on Old Georgetown Road & Democracy still bakes in-store.

[Anonymous]

If it is for adults, I would go to a bakery.

For kids supermarket is fine (mine liked ice cream cake with chocolate crunchies!)

[Anonymous]

I loathe Whole Foods baked good. Beautiful but taste like cardboard.

Wegmans is very good. Traditional bakeries are very good but expensive. But just in case it’s within your range, check out Stella’s in Rockville.

Also have never met anyone in real life who doesn’t like the chocolate Bundt from Nothing But Bundts. My daughter scrapes off most of the icing as she does on nearly every cake she’s ever had, but the cake itself is it overly sweet. (The chocolate one specifically. The others may be.)